Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? ( xkcd.com )

Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that's an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.

I'll go first: I think "Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows" was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.

Kolanaki ,
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I am pretty sure every movie I really like is under 60% on RT.

JusticeForPorygon ,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

Maximum Overdrive (1986): 14%

It's dumb as shit, and I will always love it for that reason.

Riker_Maneuver ,
@Riker_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Hook with it's 29% tomatometer rating. Dustin Hoffman—sexual misconduct allegations aside—fucking nailed it as Hook, and I think the general concept of an adult Peter Pan returning was pretty cool. Also, who doesn't love Robin Williams? It was a movie I loved in my childhood so I am absolutely biased, but 29% seems absurd. I still find the "Don't try to stop me, Smee" scene hilarious to this day.

ExtraOrdinary ,

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), starring Johnny Depp sitting at a blasphemous 50%

legion ,
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Following the XKCD rules and keeping it in the 2000s and later makes it a lot harder. I could make an entire list of '90s movies that qualify.

But my answer is: Pitch Black.

Bonus answer, which doesn't quite qualify because it has an exact 60% rating: Love (2011, the space one)

Leviathan ,

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

STATION!

improvisedbuttplug ,

Chappie (32%)

I love that movie and have seen it several times. Directed by Noel Blompkamp (District 9) and starring Die Antwoord.

It’s extremely original and entertaining sci fi.

Rootiest ,
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I liked:

  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (48%)
  • Jupiter Ascending (28%)
crypticthree ,

Death to Smoochy is a fucking masterpiece.

OutlierBlue ,

It's a seriously amazing movie. Both Edward Norton and Robin Williams were great. I can't believe so many people and the critics missed the point.

tram1 ,

I actually like:

  • Hackers (31%)
  • National Treasure (46%)
  • Bandits (64%)
wolandark ,
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I actually like Riddick, all three of them! Haven't checked but am pretty sure they would've gotten less than 60%

Quazatron ,
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Constantine - 46%

Predator - 34%

Ghost in the Shell - 43%

Hellboy - 17%

Robocop (2016) - 49%

Well, it seems like I have poor taste in movies after all.

CaptainBlagbird ,
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Hook (29% TomatoMeter).

But it was released in 1991, so it wouldn't count for the XKCD version. Also the audience score is 76%, so not really an unpopular opinion I guess.

DrVader ,

I'd no idea it was rated so poorly, that's a gem of a movie! I legit just bought it earlier this month

AverageCakeSlice ,

Wtf, I thought this was a critically-acclaimed movie.

ech ,

Jingle All the Way (the original, not the abomination with Larry the cable guy). 19% RT.

I think most people think it's too "weird", but I genuinely love it. It's got all the great 90s tropes, a cartoony core in a live action movie, an anti-consumerism message in a Christmas movie, and Phil Hartman. What's not to love?

BowserBasher ,

Gonna go with Mortal Kombat (1995) 45%, a video game to film adaptation of a fighting game is never going to be deep, but this is a fun ride.
Could add in the follow up, Annihilation (1997), 4% and the 2021 film which sits at 54% too. Don’t expect much and they are fun films.

setsneedtofeed ,
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Ok, Annihilation was actually pretty terrible, but the first movie was good dumb fun.

Alagos ,

Same for me. That film ended my many years of obsession with a song I once heard on the radio and only managed to record half of it. The pain of living in a time before Shazam & Co existed was horrible. With no track lists on the web, the best way to identify a song was humming it to an employee in a record store.. and good luck with that.

The acting, effects and story aren't all that great, but still fun to watch IMHO. But I will always love that movie just for picking Halcyon from Orbital in its ending scene.

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